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Hookup Ink, a review by Wendy Shalit of three books on the hookup culture on campus: .

When I critiqued the hookup culture back in 1999, and was summarily dismissed as a prude by my elders, it would have been an enormous comfort to know that less than ten years later my “prudish” position would be considered cutting-edge. But today there is little satisfaction in being buried under the avalanche of recent books like Unhooked (Riverhead, 2007) and Unhooked Generation (Hyperion, 2006),which have put the misery of postmodern sexual (non)intimacy utterly beyond dispute, and on the shelf. Even TheHookupHandbook(Pocket Books, 2005), billed as a chipper “Single Girl’s Guide to Living It Up,” can hardly be said to reflect living, much less “living it up.”

"Despite all the self-serving banter about her "taking the wheel" bydisrobing, the truth is that a confident, modest Miley would be farmore rebellious than a Miley who takes the usual route of pornification."

In this week's column in The Washington Times, Marybeth Hicks writes that "The Good Girl Revolution brilliantly explores the cultural conundrum my daughter is experiencing. This is a book - and a movement - whose time has come."

In an review essay in today's "Weekly Standard," Jennifer Marshall calls Girls Gone Mild "a rally cry for more young women to reclaim their rightful dignity and respect." Ms Marshall points to wait-until-marriage groups on campus, and Shalit's outspoken teen interviewees who have boycotted companies as "proof that the revival Shalit called for in her popular first book, A Return to Modesty, is underway."

In her keynote address at the "Future of Feminism" conference at Harvard on April 10, 2008, Camille Paglia had some surprising things to say about the movement for higher standards:

"Wendy Shalit’s first book, A Return to Modesty. . . created a storm when it was published nine years ago but whose influence can be detected in today’s campus chastity clubs, including here at Harvard. As a veteran of pro-sex feminism who still endorses pornography and prostitution, I say more power to all these chaste young women who are defending their individuality and defying groupthink and social convention. That is true feminism!"

"But by omitting all the younger, more wholesome role models from his show, Dr. Phil unwittingly revealed how much distortion is required to prop up this media-stoked controversy. The dichotomy between prudish elders and wild young'uns turns out to be, on closer examination, largely adult dogma. Yes, many young people are rebelling--but today they rebel, increasingly, by upholding high standards in the face of the low ones promoted around them."

In Shalit’s re-creation, the vulgar sexualization against which her
heroines struggle is thus in most cases something imposed on them not
so much by their peers as by adults, in an act of imperialism de haut
en bas. It is the authorities who have gone wild, and the young who
suffer. . .

And the good news? Shalit’s evangel is that, spontaneously, many girls
are beginning to resist—rediscovering the virtues of self-assertion by
rejecting the expectations of others to be “people-pleasing bad girls."

"An American who became a Torontonian by marriage four years ago,
Shalit is the author of two thoroughly researched books about "young
women reclaiming their self-respect" and rejecting promiscuity and the
hypersexuality of popular culture and fashion.

Girls Gone Mild has just arrived on bookshelves. Her previous book, A Return to Modesty, was praised by Salon, The Wall Street Journal and Newsweek, which called her "a prodigy at cracking the codes of culture." Playboy, on the other hand, put it under the heading, A Man's Worst Nightmare."

"I think what's happening is that we've reached the limit of the 'if
you've got it, flaunt it,' philosophy and we're seeing the power of a
little mystery and glamour," said Wendy Shalit, author of 1999's "A
Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue" and 2007's "Girls Gone
Mild."